Building the Green Economy

Policy Quarterly, 2014

The conflicts among ecological and economic goals have been a central characteristic of environmental politics since the emergence of the modern environmental movement in the 1960s. On one side of the debate is the argument that reducing pollution and protecting ecosystems and other resources unnecessarily impairs economic expansion, competitiveness and prosperity. From this point of view, although some environmental safeguards are needed, public policy should favour growth as a general rule. On the other side is the assertion that human health and ecological limits demand a carefully managed path for growth, including little or even no growth, and a preference for ecological over economic goals when they conflict. Environmental politics has consisted of a struggle to define where the balance between these goals should be struck.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022

Is the green economy a real solution to the present economic development?" represents the main question of the present research. The paper deals with assessing the impact of innovation on the green economy and quality of life through policies promoted at the European Union (EU) level. The objectives of the paper are to assess the impact level of the policy implementation across the Member States through the research and development (R&D) process and to identify models for the development of the green economy in Europe. The applied methods are empirical and analytical based on the study of literature, econometric modeling, pivoting econometric models, trend synthesis, prioritization, and staging of policy experimentation in the Member States through data processing and statistical programs. The results consist in obtaining development models for the green economy at the EU and national levels. In conclusion, the paper contributes to the early identification of vulnerabilities that may affect the development of European strategic projects in relation to events and security breaches occurring at the EU level at any given time.

The green economy is an important feature of policy discussions around the world. It is portrayed as part of the solution to the global economic crisis, and as an innovative, efficient means of advancing the climate change agenda. It promises a targeted economic stimulus to launch the transition to a low carbon economy and spur long-term prosperity based on radical new technologies and improvements in resource efficiency. Clearly, this is a seductive idea worthy of careful scrutiny by social scientists.

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Collegium antropologicum, 2014

Green technologies include implementation of technological projects in the field of environmental protection through all associated components, such as: waters, soil, air or biodiversity. Hence, such projects potentially become a driving force of new economic momentum in the conditions of post-crisis recovery. In addition, the support of this segment by the institutions of the European Union, either in terms of organization through the establishment of rules and systems for monitoring and control of environmental protection measures, and most importantly in terms of finances, by supporting the development of infrastructure for environmental protection, is today an indisputable category. The aim of the research is to show the potential of green technologies in the initiation of economic activities based on content analysis of the collected literature, as well as to determine the correlation between green technologies and environmental protection and the measures for the reduction of ...

TemaNord, 2011

The report shows that the Nordic countries since the 1970s and until today have achieved substantial emissions reductions and improved local and regional environmental quality, and at the same time they have had an economic growth at the average OECD level or above. Growth in emissions to air has been decoupled from the economic growth. During the 1970s and 1980s mainly command and control policy instruments were used, but since then economic instruments have played an increasing role in the countries' environmental policy. The report presents an overview of this policy development, and discusses to what extent the socalled "Nordic model" has contributed to this and the relatively high focus on clean environment. The report shows several examples where new, environmentally benign technologies and products have been spurred by various environmental policy instruments. Over time, economic instruments could enhance and promote a greener growth through more cost effective emissions reductions and inventions of green technologies than a command and control approach.

Electronic Green Journal

In an effort to explore the potential for financing environmental innovation, this paper examines different forms of financing and attempts to evaluate their effectiveness. The study considers both public and private forms of funding as well as providing policy suggestions for the support of appropriate financing for eco-innovation. Key Findings:  The literature on the financing of innovation is very limited, and a virtually non-existent literature on the funding of eco-innovation in particular.  R&D spending in the energy sector is relatively quite small, when compared to other industries and sectors. In addition, since fossil fuels receive close to one-quarter of the federal funding it is perhaps not surprising that there is a dearth of research on funding for eco-innovation.  Innovation is inherently risky and uncertain. Moreover, if we are unsure about the rate of innovation, then we have difficulty predicting the pattern of global climate change, which makes it difficult to substantiate the reasons for further research funding.  Public funding occupies a significant and important position in innovation financing. One essential role of government is the funding of basic research, especially technologies that are not in and of themselves commercially viable. Further, of one hundred lines of inquiry only one might merit commercialization by venture capital funding.  Environmental innovation is complicated by both environmental externalities as well as the public good nature of the technology. R&D subsidies address the public good characteristic, but fail to account for the environmental externality, so do not address adoption challenges. Subsidies, either R&D or production subsidies, are an easy target for interest groups, creating a political challenge. As a result, subsidies frequently take less transparent forms such as price controls that reduce prices below full cost.

The green economy is put forward as an apposite remedy to both economic crisis and ecological devastation. Policy makers, academics, corporate interests and activists are advancing their goals as part of and through the green economy, a discursive terrain full of circulating and competing ideas about, dispositions towards, and desires for the economy. In Massachusetts, broad-based coalitions involving labor, environmentalists and community groups have emerged to capture funding, influence policy and launch their own economic initiatives. This paper explores and compares the activities of two green economy coalitions. I investigate how social actors, including myself, have been negotiating, responding to, and producing the meaning of the green economy, and the meaning of "the economy" writ-large, through our political efforts. I aim to move beyond a project that only critiques capitalism or maps out capitalist hegemony. Instead, taking inspiration and drawing from J.K. Gibson-Graham I look to theorize and amplify non-capitalist initiatives and enterprises. I am particularly interested in thinking about the ways in which the expression of different desires for economy can lead to openings, or closures, for the construction of non-capitalist relationships, initiatives, and enterprises. L'économie verte est mise en avant comme un remède pertinent à la fois la crise économique et la dévastation écologique. Les décideurs politiques, les universitaires, les intérêts des entreprises et des militants avancent leurs objectifs dans le cadre de, et par l'économie verte, un terrain discursive pleine de circulation et d'idées concurrentes sur, dispositions à l'égard, et les désirs de l'économie. A Massachusetts, de coalitions impliquant les travailleurs, les écologistes et les groupes communautaires ont vu le jour pour assurer le financement, la politique de l'influence et de lancer leurs propres initiatives économiques. Cet article explore et compare les activités des deux coalitions de l'économie verte. J'étudie comment les acteurs sociaux, y compris moi-même, ont négocié, en réponse à, et produisent le sens de l'économie verte. Le sens de «l'économie» est produite par des efforts politiques. Je cherche à aller plus loin que la critique du capitalisme ou la cartographie de l'hégémonie capitaliste. Au lieu de cela, en s'inspirant de J.K. Gibson-Graham, je théoriser et d'amplifier les initiatives et des entreprises non-capitalistes. Je suis particulièrement intéressé par la réflexion sur la façon dont les initiatives et les entreprises peut conduire à des ouvertures ou fermetures, et l'expression des désirs économique pour la construction des relations non-capitalistes. La economía verde es presentada como un remedio a la crisis económica y a la devastación ecológica. Formuladores de política, académicos, intereses corporativos y activistas están avanzando en sus objetivos como parte de y a través de la economía verde, un terreno discursivo lleno de ideas circulando y compitiendo acerca de, disposiciones hacia, y deseos por la economía. En Massachusetts, coaliciones amplias que involucran grupos de trabajo, de ambientalistas y la comunidad han emergido para capturar financiamiento, influenciar la política e impulsar sus propias iniciativas económicas. Este artículo explora y compara las actividades de dos coaliciones de economía verde. Investigo cómo actores sociales, incluyéndome a mí mismo, han estado negociando, respondiendo a, y produciendo el significado de economía verde, y el significado de "la economía", a través de nuestros esfuerzos políticos. Mi objetivo es ir más allá de un proyecto que solamente critica el capitalismo o traza la hegemonía capitalista. Por el contrario, inspirado y enmarcado por J.K. Gibson-Graham busco teorizar y ampliar iniciativas y empresas no-capitalistas. Estoy particularmente interesado en pensar acerca de los caminos en los cuales la expresión de diferentes deseos para la economía puede provocar aperturas, o cierres, para la construcción de relaciones, iniciativas, y empresas no-capitalistas.

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 2010

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